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Old 11-14-2008, 06:39 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Mormon Red Death View Post
boy you have bought the japanese thought hook line and sinker. GM, Ford and Chrylser make a lot of really great cars. The new cobalt is nice and gets like 35 mpg. I have a 3 year old Mercury Mariner that would go 200k miles if we werent going to trade in for a minivan. Not to mention my 02 saturn that has 100k miles on it and will have very little upkeep.
No. They're shitty cars. The data have proven it over and over again. I'm happy that you've had good luck with them, though. I've heard others say that, too.

It is also no stretch that their entire market share was built around SUVs. That was pathetically short-sighted.
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